Ana Garriga is a scholar of early modern Spain and Latin America. She earned her PhD from Brown University in 2024. Prior to joining the Department of Hispanic Studies at Brown, she received a prestigious Fulbright scholarship and completed a PhD at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where she wrote her dissertation on the letters of Saint Teresa of Ávila (1515–82).Carmen Urbita earned her PhD from Brown University in 2025. Prior to joining the Department of Hispanic Studies at Brown, she completed her BA in comparative literature at King’s College London. She was granted a scholarship to pursue a Master of Studies in modern languages at the University of Oxford. In 2020, Ana and Carmen launched Las hijas de Felipe, one of the most popular podcasts in the Spanish-speaking world.

This self-help book by two scholarly BFFs is full of wisdom gleaned from the lives of 16th and 17th-century nuns like Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Saint Teresa that is applicable to your most modern quandries. The cheeky and insightful volume is also brimming with fascinating historical details, like the penchants of some nuns for side hustles and eating spiders

Ana Garriga is a scholar of early modern Spain and Latin America. She earned her PhD from Brown University in 2024. Prior to joining the Department of Hispanic Studies at Brown, she received a prestigious Fulbright scholarship and completed a PhD at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where she wrote her dissertation on the letters of Saint Teresa of Ávila (1515–82).Carmen Urbita earned her PhD from Brown University in 2025. Prior to joining the Department of Hispanic Studies at Brown, she completed her BA in comparative literature at King’s College London. She was granted a scholarship to pursue a Master of Studies in modern languages at the University of Oxford. In 2020, Ana and Carmen launched Las hijas de Felipe, one of the most popular podcasts in the Spanish-speaking world.

This self-help book by two scholarly BFFs is full of wisdom gleaned from the lives of 16th and 17th-century nuns like Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Saint Teresa that is applicable to your most modern quandries. The cheeky and insightful volume is also brimming with fascinating historical details, like the penchants of some nuns for side hustles and eating spiders